Health & Wellbeing
Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust (LUHFT) care about employees health and wellbeing, enabling our diverse workforce to be healthy with a sense of wellbeing is crucial to high-quality patient care. The NHS People Plan and People Promise places the wellbeing of our staff at the heart of what we do. Caring for the wellbeing of our workforce enables them to care for the wellbeing of our patients.
We want to ensure that your job doesn't impact your health and your health doesn't impact your job
We have learned a lot about how we enable the wellbeing of our workforce over the past few years. Health and wellbeing support has traditionally been focused on reducing sickness absence, particularly relating to mental and physical health and we know that we need to account the broader organisational and cultural factors that underpin an individual’s ability to bring their best self to work.Taking account of our diverse workforce, the impact that leadership and line management has to play and focusing on the prevention agenda will enable us to embed a culture of health and wellbeing across our organisation.
To ensure that we understand the requirements within our organisation we complete a health and wellbeing organisational assessment and health needs assessment each year and actions are agreed following this with reference to areas which need improvement.
Many factors influence the health and wellbeing of our diverse workforce. Some of these, such as physical and mental health, are well understood. However, there are other factors such relationships, management skills and the environment that are fundamental to support our diverse people in providing world class health care to our patients.
Our Health and Wellbeing pages will provide support on aspects of health and wellbeing to keep your well in work: please take some time to review our pages.
Looking after your team’s Health and Wellbeing guide
Healthy teams lead to healthy patients.
This video provides a brief overview of the guide and explains how it can inspire and support you and your team.
This guide supports any team seeking to improve their health and wellbeing, through a culture change approach.
Please see the following guidance: NHS England » Looking after your team’s health and wellbeing guide
We recommend you start with identifying your team’s wellbeing goals, and then dip in and out of the other sections based on your identified needs and creating your own journey.
If you require any further support with health and wellbeing in your team/ department please contact LUHFT Health and Wellbeing Lead: sam.holder@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
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